Quarantined Artists

Devon Gilfillian is a brave man.

Mike Hadreas, who records as Perfume Genius, released the absolutely stunning album, Set My Heart on Fire Immediately, all about movement—emotional and physical—just when the world shut down. FUV caught up with Hadreas in June, in the midst of a pandemic-era Pride month and as protests for racial justice dominated everyone's conversations.

Q&A (formerly Quarantined Artists) is an FUV feature that includes online and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life in Covid-19 lockdown and beyond. Bethany Cosentino of Best Coast checks in from Los Angeles to tell us how she's getting through this uncertain time.

Quarantined Artists is an FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life in Covid-19 lockdown. Margo Price delayed the release of her third album, That's How Rumors Get Started, due to the coronavirus, which directly affected her husband, songwriter Jeremy Ivey.

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life in Covid-19 lockdown. Nicole Atkins explains the Jersey shore boardwalk culture that infuses her latest album, Italian Ice.

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life in Covid-19 lockdown. Lucinda Williams gets political with her new album, Good Souls Better Angels.

Thao Nguyen's unveiling of her inner truth, and the peace that brings, continues on Thao and the Get Down Stay Down's riveting new album, Temple, released on May 15 via Ribbon Music. Read her Quarantined Artists Q&A, check out a conversation with her and Eric Holland, and check out her Spotify playlist for FUV too.

When Waxahatchee's Katie Crutchfield decided to give up drinking following her tour behind 2017's rambunctious Out in the Storm, she also gave herself free rein to reconsider and revamp all aspects of her life. Sidestepping away from what she told Rolling Stone was a "loud and abrasive" sound that coursed through her previous work, she veered down a different road for her fifth album.

Quarantined Artists is a new FUV feature that includes online Q&As and on-air conversations with musicians dealing with life in Covid-19 lockdown. British songwriter Jade Bird canceled her spring tour and headed home to Britain to be with her family during the lockdown, but she's still writing new songs (or trying to).

As one of FUV's Quarantined Artists, Norah Jones is making her way through this crisis with a new album, Pick Me Up Off the Floor, that has perfectly imperfect timing.